Amazing Tilt-Shift of Carnaval in Rio
The Hobbit: Behind the Scenes Footage
5K, 3D, 48 frames per second, one of the best fantasy narratives of all-time, Peter Jackson at the helm —- mindblowing possibilities!
(Source: facebook.com)
I Fight Dragons’ tutorial for making chiptunes
From BoingBoing:
Brian from the band I Fight Dragons generously made a tutorial that explains how to create your own chiptunes (music made on old videogame soundcards).
AMAZING!! —- High-Altitude Rocket Onboard Video
From YouTube: On September 30, 2011 at 11:08am, Derek Deville’s Qu8k (pronounced “Quake”) launched from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to an altitude of 121,000’ before returning safely to earth. Above 99% of the atmosphere the sky turns black in the middle of the day and the curvature of the earth is clearly visible.
SHORT VERSION OF VIDEO HERE: http://youtu.be/5HTwbpjBUOk?hd=1
More Pictures and Info — http://ddeville.com/derek/Qu8k.html
Sponsors:
http://www.mayback.com/
http://www.syntheon.com/
Learn more about the hobby of High Power Rocketry:
http://www.tripoli.org/
Cosmic Ray Project:
http://symbiosis-foundation.org/background.html
Kickstarter Project: The New America
Help Nando Costa make a film out of wood
After making a series of illustrations last year that were laser engraved onto blocks of wood, he now wants to create an animation using the same method. Since engraving every frame on wood isn’t going to come cheap, he’s asking for funding, with fabulous prizes for his backers.
Source: Computer Arts (UK)
Google Brings the Dead Sea Scrolls Online
Explore the Dead Sea Scrolls in Hebrew or translated to English. Pretty amazing!
From Boing Boing:
“Just in time for Rosh Hashanah: ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls are now online; a project of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, powered by Google technology.’”
http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/
(Source: Boing Boing)
Real Life LIGHTCYCLE
Short video of the All New Full Scale Electric Tron Lightcycle driving in the daytime as well as nighttime. This bike has had extensive reworking on the body as well as Lithium Ion batteries and a 96volt electric motor.
(Source: youtube.com)
Looking down on Earth from the ISS (HD Timelapse)
Raw data taken from the gateway to astronaut photography of the earth “http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/mrf.htm”. Program used was virtualdub.
(Source: youtube.com)
MIT Media Lab: 3-D printing with variable densities
“We’re really interested in bringing together the industrial world and the natural world to generate 3-D printing platforms that are biologically inspired.”
(Source: Boing Boing)
The Rum Diary (trailer)
Starring Johnny Depp
Based on the debut novel by Hunter S. Thompson, “The Rum Diary” tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp). Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, The San Juan Star, run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Richard Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Paul soon becomes obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard), the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiancée of Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart). Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals, is one of a growing number of American entrepreneurs who are determined to convert Puerto Rico into a capitalist paradise in service of the wealthy. When Kemp is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, the journalist is presented with a choice: to use his words for the corrupt businessmen’s financial benefit, or use them to take the bastards down.
